Is it normal to get School Report do early?

[wanttomakeadifference]

DD has two weeks of school left and has brought her school report home with her this evening.

Are reports usually completed so early? I've got this (probably unfounded) feeling that as her report has been issued, her class will be on 'wind down and chill out' for the next two weeks.

Legally schools have to provide the opportunity to talk to the teachers after reports are issued (that does not mean they have to have a formal parents evening)

So, yes of course, all reports are coming home now or now-abouts.

That report you're reading may have been written in the Easter holidays.

Why would the class be on wind down because reports have gone out?

It was probably written several weeks ago anyway.

The earliest I've had a report was half term (of summer term).

At the DCs school the reports are issued the Friday before summer term breaks up.

But the assessment week is just before half term.

This half term seems to me to be about school play, foreign languages performances, sports day, arts week and transition. So yeah, I think your feeling is possibly quite accurate.

indigo I realise I'm probably being unfair, it just seems that they are forever being assessed as they 'play' (reception), and now their written reports have been issued the assessment and learning emphasis will cease (which may not be s bad thing).

In addition, the teachers have sent home all art work, cleared the walls and sent PE kit home .

Ours have 3 weeks left and we got them today, open afternoon to view work is next week probably so they have time to clear up before end of term?

It is not odd to have the report now. Final assessments usually made just before last half term..
But find it odd that they have already cleared all the Walls and sent PE kits home already. Especially as our school was subject to an Ofsted inspection last year in the last week of term it seems a risky strategy with two weeks to go....

DD2's school has said reports will go out w/c 9th July, expect it to be no different for DD1 as her SATs results will have to go in.

DD1 had a pre-report in March, which felt a bit odd, but the school closes next week (There's two transition weeks to secondary after that) so things are a bit strange this year. We're going from 3-tier to 2-tier and this is the chaos year.

Same as Happy. If you consider the number of children the teacher has to do reports for and the fact that the head will have to see them and / or comment on them realistically the teachers have to complete them well before the end of term (most of my teacher friends had an inset day after half term to work on reports). However it is a bit sad that the displays etc have been taken down already. Are they not doing any more PE?

We are getting the reports on the 6th July and there is a parents evening on the 9th. The school does issue progress reports at the end of each term and there is also a parents evenings in October and March. It is a small village school, though.

You are entitled to one written report per academic year (in state schools), this does not have to be at the end of a year. You will find as your child moves up to a secondary school that you get reports in the spring and summer terms, probably alternately, so that the workload is spread for teachers, who may teach 600+ children in the school.

We do our school reports in the spring term. That way staff have a term and a half to assess the children and then there's still plenty of time to address any issues, rather than finding out at the end of the summer that there was a problem that could have been fixed.

There's a parents evening each term too, the second is just after the report so parents find out what is going to happen, and the third checks on progress following the report

Why would they wind down just because the reports have been given out? The teacher wrote them weeks ago and presumably didn't stop teaching anything then, so why would they stop now just because the reports are relocated!?

"That way staff have a term and a half to assess the children and then there's still plenty of time to address any issues, rather than finding out at the end of the summer that there was a problem that could have been fixed."

I'm sure it's not what you mean, but this implies that the teachers write the reports, then assess the children... surely the teachers are continuously assessing children and this information is always used to plan lessons, not write reports, then assess, then fix the problem in just the last term or so. We don't use the end of year assessments and/or SATs to identify problems and put in support in the identified areas.